Ok gang, so out of boredom I'm putting together a bit of a mixed tape/dj mix of psychedelia-style music and to keep it flowing am thinking of intercutting some/all the songs with movie quotes from some psychedelia films. Musically think of the soundtracks from Barbarella or Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, that type of vibe, and am thinking of things that are weird and wonderful to throw in there to split the songs up to let it flow.

I have a ton of music already, but suggestions on that front are also more than welcome!

Lots and lots of stuff from FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS ("by this time, our minds were totally twisted...")

Ringo saying "it's all in the mind" from YELLOW SUBMARINE. (You should be able to find lots of quotes from that one too).

Willy Wonka's "tunnel" poem.

Personally I'd include "Your sacrifice has completed my sanctuary of 1,000 testicles" from THE HOLY MOUNTAIN.

Surely something from ALTERED STATES ("You don't have to tell me how weird you are. I know how weird you are") belongs.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Disney's animated version) is always good for insert quotes.

Hope that's the kind of stuff you're looking for.

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"The basic plot is that Donna Speir and Hope Marie Carlton, the two undercover DEA agent Playboy Playmates from the last movie, are still running around in jungle shorts, cowboy boots and spaghetti strap T-shirts, firing their machine guns at drug smugglers, Filipino communist guerrillas, and corrupt federal agents while their two friends, Lisa London and Miss May 1984 Patty Duffek, lounge around the pool a lot and talk on speaker phones that look like fax machines."-Joe Bob on SAVAGE BEACH

Oh and if you're looking for more music check out the FANTASTIC PLANET soundtrack---beautiful, sensual psychedelic rock.

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"The basic plot is that Donna Speir and Hope Marie Carlton, the two undercover DEA agent Playboy Playmates from the last movie, are still running around in jungle shorts, cowboy boots and spaghetti strap T-shirts, firing their machine guns at drug smugglers, Filipino communist guerrillas, and corrupt federal agents while their two friends, Lisa London and Miss May 1984 Patty Duffek, lounge around the pool a lot and talk on speaker phones that look like fax machines."-Joe Bob on SAVAGE BEACH

A Clockwork Orange contains some stunning visuals.Though not quite psychedelic in effect, McDowell's narration & Wendy Carlos' soundtrack (together or separate) are what really drives the dream scape of this movie.

I have a strong love for psychadelic and surreal films...there's been so many great mind-warping films over the years with surreal imagery. I also have a strong tendency to love these sequences in films where characters wander dreamingly from one place to another oftentimes via some sort of transportation (this is quite common in anime films. 2 examples that really stand out in my memory right now occurred in PATLABOR 1: THE MOVIE and SPIRITED AWAY). Anyways back to psychadelic and surreal films, get your mind around some of these and their imagery:

ALPHAVILLEREPULSIONNAKED LUNCH12 MONKEYS (love a lot of the music in this one especially "It's a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong)PITHE MATRIXTHE 13TH FLOORTHE TRIALKAFKATHE WIZARD OF OZMETROPOLIS (2001) (another great soundtrack, gotta love Ray Charles' music in this)THE DARK CRYSTALCITY OF LOST CHILDRENCABINET OF DR. CALIGARIMETROPOLIS (1927)VAMPYRNOSFERATU1984 (1984)V FOR VENDETTAWILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORYBLADE RUNNER2001: A SPACE ODYSSEYA CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Certainly Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has some of the most accurate depictions of what being on psychedelics is actually like. It also has a lot of stuff that is nothing like what being on psychedelics is like.

I second Beyond the Black Rainbow, which is not necessarily true-to-state, but certainly the aim of most psychedelic movies.

Avoid The Wall, because avoid cliches like the plague. (I like the movie.)

The Monkee's Head is interesting, because that is a movie specifically made by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson (yes, that one) high off their minds on LSD specifically trying to destroy the idea of the Monkees. It has Frank Zappa in it, for no real reason.

My recommendation is that you take whatever weird and wonderful stuff you can find and start splicing them together in a true William S. Burroughs cut-up style. That always works, because when you talk psychedelic, it doesn't really matter. It isn't what you're playing, it's the mind that is splicing them together that matters, i.e. your viewer.

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Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill.

All these varying replies make me wonder how the OP is defining "psychedelic." I associate that word with that whole genre of mid-Sixties to late-Seventies movies packed with solarized visual FX and floaty-woaty music characterized by hypnotic drum signatures and either heavy keyboards or twangy guitars, sometimes both.

The ultimate soundtrack from that era, for me, is the incidental music from Psychomania and/or the theme music from The Green Slime. Parts of the soundtrack from See No Evil also fits the bill nicely.